Librarian Joe Williams Presented at SUNYLA 2009

At the recent 41st Annual SUNY Librarian’s conference (SUNYLA 2009) held at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarian, Joe Williams, did a presentation on using a scientific approach to assess and analyze libraries' collections in relation to the academic curriculum. This presentation titled “Measuring the Maritime Curriculum: Library Collection Assessment at SUNY Maritime College” explores how to use various factors to determine what an optimal collection should be and then comparing this to the library’s existing collection – a formula based theory to collection assessment. You can read more about Mr. Williams’ research by viewing an abstract and PowerPoint presentation online at Luce Library’s conferences web page. Mr. Williams had a very captive audience who expressed great interest in this topic and shared many questions at the end.

Kudos to Joe for a job well done!